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No. 228,508. Patented June 8,1880.

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,PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D c.

UNITED STATES `PATENT OFFICE.

CHAUNCEY G. BEVIN, OF EAST HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO BEVIN BROTHERS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

STRAP FOR SLElGH-BELLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters =:Patent No. 228,508, dated June 8, 1880.

Application filed April 22, 1880.

' combination with an ordinary strapof leather or other equivalent material, to add to the strength and durability of the strap and provide a rigid and iirm support for the bells.

My invention has for its object to produce a highly-ornamental strap, which will readily adapt itself in continuous curves to any position in which it may be applied requiring` it to be bent` which will preserve its shape under ordinary usage, resume it'quickly after undue or accidental temporary tlexure, and obviate the liability of breakage of the metallic portion of the same, as more fully hereinafter specified.

To this end my invention consists in the combination, with an ordinary leather or other equivalent strap, of a metallic strap provided with a series of corrugations and alternate plain sections, the plain sections forming the seats for the sleigh-bells, as more fully here-v inafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a perspective view of a portion of my improved strap, showing the bells attached; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the stra-p and bells.

The letter A indicates a strap of leather or other equivalent pliable or iieXible material, such as is usually employed for mounting sleigh-bells; and B a pad, such as is usually employed in connection with the same, ot' flannel, felt, or other equivalent material.

The letter C indicates a strap constructed of a thin strip of flexible metal of a length and width corresponding to the length and width of the strip A. The said strap O is corrugated transversely at certain portions of its length, as indicated at D, leaving intermediate plain portions, E, which form the seats for the bells E.

The bells F may be -of the ordinary or any approved description, and their shanks are passed through suitable apertures G in the (Model.)

plain portions or seats of the metallic strap and similar apertures H in the leather strap and pad, and are riveted so as to secure the straps A and C and the pad together, form-' ing a single strap.

As constructed, it will be observed that the bells have as secure and rigid a seat upon the iiat portions of the metallic part of the compound strap as if said metallic part were made iiat throughout its entire length, while the corrugated portions between such seats render the metallic part of the strap not only more iiexible and resilient, butI obvia-te the usual tendency to breakage-a common difculty to be met with in sleigh-bell straps composed partly of metal and partly ot' leather.

In addition to these advantages, also, the

corrugations impart a highly-ornamental appearance to the strap, thereby producing a more attractive and marketable article.

I am aware that there has heretofore been patented a band or strap for sleigh-bells consistin g of a continuous strip of textile or other material and a series of iiexible metallic sections connected together by means of leather sections and suitable links and secured to the continuous band or strap; and I lay no claim to the invention ot such a strap or band. It has not the elasticity and property of preserving its curves which characterize my present invention, in which it will be observed that while the metallic strap is continuous its corrugations permit it to elongate or contract to accommodate itself to whatever curvature may be given to the leather or textile strap.

A strap for sleigh bells, consisting of a leatherI strap and a flexible metallic strap, the latter being provided alternately with a series of transverse corrugations and plain sections, the plain sections serving as seats for the bells, the shanks of which pass through both straps and are riveted at their ends, whereby the straps are secured together, substantially as specied.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GHAUNGEY G. BEVIN. Witnesses:

SAMI.. KIRBY, NATHLO. SMITH. 

